It seems to be a new rank for the Icelandic coast guard, i was looking in yesterdays newspaper and looked an article about uniforminsignia for Icelandic persons in the police and coast guard.
The director general of the Icelandic coast guard was dressed in a uniform where he had one thick stripe where on top was a sircle simular to the danish for commodore.
http://www.visir.is/ExternalData/pdf/fbl/050324.pdfand scroll down far page 24. to be exact
ps i have allready put this rank on my home page http://www.kaldi.is/merkjavara/icelandc ... aeslan.htm

Finally the Icelandic Coast Guard and Police have there 1 thick stripe Commodore and 4 star Brigadier rank. What I don't understand is that the Police needs so much rank insignia. In Belgium only these ranksinsignia are available but earlier we had State Police officer ranks from Second Lieutenant till Lieutenant General now only these excist:

The ranks for Federal Police are the same but the rank of Hoofdcommissaris and Commissaris are now used to give ranks to previous officers of the Rijkswacht / Gendarmerie (State Police) from Second Lieutenant to Lieutenant General. The have a function badge on there right pocket to indicate there function. I will give them on a later time. You can see them on http://www.uniforminsignia.org/browse.p ... at=Belgium[/web]

Kind regards

kaldi wrote:It seems to be a new rank for the Icelandic coast guard, i was looking in yesterdays newspaper and looked an article about uniforminsignia for Icelandic persons in the police and coast guard.The director general of the Icelandic coast guard was dressed in a uniform where he had one thick stripe where on top was a sircle simular to the danish for commodore.http://www.visir.is/ExternalData/pdf/fbl/050324.pdfand scroll down far page 24. to be exactps i have allready put this rank on my home page http://www.kaldi.is/merkjavara/icelandc ... aeslan.htm

Hi Peter.
There is a different betven the police insignia and the ones from the ICG
The police have 14 insignias since 1997 when new law for the police came to act but the ICG have had 12 since the (cod wars) against GB. But some weeks/months ago the director general of the ICG added a new rank in the system, the one for commodore, ( US. rear admiral lower half ) for him self. The ICG does not have a special regulations about the ranking system but they are making one based on those ones they allready have and im looking forward to see what it will look like.
here is link to the police insignia http://www.kaldi.is/merkjavara/loggan/e ... gregla.htmand here is link to the Icelandic coast guard insignia http://www.kaldi.is/merkjavara/icelandc ... aeslan.htmps. they have a committee for the rankinsignia of the police working now to see if they can take out some of the rankinsignia for the police.